Group 3 - Economic and Social Change; Patriarchs and Population Growth (731-735) 2

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Group 3 - Economic and Social Change; Patriarchs and Population Growth (731-735)



Economic and Social Changes

-Ming and Qing Emperors wanted to restore traditional Chinese ways
THE PATRIARCHAL FAMILY
  • -Family = very important to Chinese,
  • -Filial Piety: duties of children to fathers and loyalty to the emperor.
  • -Clans also were the functioning of the society
    • supported education of the poor
GENDER RELATIONS
  • -Women always subjected to men.
  • -Girls seen as liabilities socially and financially
  • -Boys became more wanted than girls so more infanticide of girls
  • -Raise the girl then she would go join a different family
  • -If hubby dies girls were encouraged to commit suicide to show loyality to their hubbies by following them to the grave.
  • -foot binding was used to make girls more attractive.
  • -pretty commoner girl's feet were sometimes bonded in hopes the girl would marry and enchance the family's social standing
  • -new bride least important in a family.
POPULATION GROWTH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
  • -China very agriculturally based but very small amount of land suitable for farming.
  • -New food crops from the Americas allowed the Chinese to use land that was once not cultivated
  • -Spanish Merchants introduced corn, sweet potatoes, and peanuts to Chinese to farm.
  • -New crops made population grow majorly.
  • -land got very productive mid-17th century
POPULATION GROWTH
  • -1600CE=160million people even with the disease
  • -mid-17th century it fell to 140 million because of war
  • -1750CE = 225Million, makes it a 40% increase because of that there were small Social and economic problems.
  • - because of population increase there was very cheap labor at easy Access
FOREIGN TRADE
  • -Exported lotsa:
  • -silk porcelain, laquerware, and tea
  • -only imported:
  • -Maluku Spices, Exotic birds and animal skins, woolen textiles from Europe
TRADE AND MIGRATION TO SOUTHEAST ASIA

  • -Chineses merchants were prominent Manila
  • -Mainly traded procelain and silk for silver
GOVERNMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
  • -During Ming times technological innovation had slowed
  • -Europeans took gunpowdered weapons and improved them
  • -Little innovation in agricultural and industrial technologies
  • -Slow down because of government
  • -Ming and Qing regimes favored political and social stability over the invention of new technologies